Holland flowering : how the Dutch flower industry conquered the world / Andrew Gebhardt.

By:

Gebhardt, Andrew

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789048522590
9048522595
9048522609
9789048522606

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Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:

338.17596609492 23

LOC classification:

SB443.4.N4 G43 2014eb

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Holland Flowering -- Early Dutch Horticulture -- Rise of Aalsmeer's Horticultural Grower's Cooperatives -- Dutch Flower Auction: Traders -- Horticultural Aesthetics -- Planet of Flowers.

Summary: Worldwide, the indelible image of the Netherlands is the tulip. But the tulip is not alone: flowers of all kinds have long been a key part of both the Dutch identity and the Dutch economy, and in Holland Flowering, Andrew Gebhardt offers a dazzling tour of Dutch flower culture, from the earliest days of horticulture to attempts to grow bulbs on the moon. Building his account around the world's largest flower auction, Aalsmeer's, which is located near Amsterdam, Gebhardt links past and present, petals and painting, colonial trading and the European Union. The resulting book is as unusual as it is ambitious, full of insights into horticulture, the workings of markets, globalization, aesthetics, and Dutch popular culture.

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Worldwide, the indelible image of the Netherlands is the tulip. But the tulip is not alone: flowers of all kinds have long been a key part of both the Dutch identity and the Dutch economy, and in Holland Flowering, Andrew Gebhardt offers a dazzling tour of Dutch flower culture, from the earliest days of horticulture to attempts to grow bulbs on the moon. Building his account around the world's largest flower auction, Aalsmeer's, which is located near Amsterdam, Gebhardt links past and present, petals and painting, colonial trading and the European Union. The resulting book is as unusual as it is ambitious, full of insights into horticulture, the workings of markets, globalization, aesthetics, and Dutch popular culture.

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